On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 10:10:37 UTC, bauss wrote:
I just want to say everyone who doesn't use the web-interface
has to look at markdown anyway because people still write code
in backticks etc. despite no support; even I do that.
Me, too. It's easy and unobtrusive.
As for actually re
On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:25:45 PM MST Neia Neutuladh via
Digitalmars- d-learn wrote:
It's not a forum. It's a newsgroup that happens to have a web
interface. Newsgroups are text-only. So bbcode is out, html is
out, but i
On Sunday, 11 November 2018 at 03:57:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
It may be that a feature was needed to do better character
escaping
Yeah, I would have preferred to just escape all of it (and axe
the biggest mis"feature" ddoc has imo - embedded HTML), but it
got rejected :(
On the whole
On Saturday, November 10, 2018 7:51:36 PM MST Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-
d-learn wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 23:29:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > The fact that they got added to ddoc just further degrades it
> > as a proper, macro-based markup language.
>
> The backticks
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 23:29:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
The fact that they got added to ddoc just further degrades it
as a proper, macro-based markup language.
The backticks were added to ddoc because they enabled something
that was *virtually impossible* in ddoc before - proper
On Saturday, November 10, 2018 6:53:14 AM MST Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 09:11:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > No, I didn't. I just used underscores, which has been used with
> > plain text for emphasis for decades. Supporting markdown, would
> >
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 18:47:19 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 13:53:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
[...]
There is another possibility. Have the website run (fallible)
heuristics to detect a snippet of code and automatically
generate it. That would leave the maili
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 13:53:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 09:11:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
No, I didn't. I just used underscores, which has been used
with plain text for emphasis for decades. Supporting markdown,
would involve stuff like backticks for code
On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 09:11:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
No, I didn't. I just used underscores, which has been used with
plain text for emphasis for decades. Supporting markdown, would
involve stuff like backticks for code highlighting
Backticks are from ddoc. What's the other way t
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:36:54PM +, Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[...]
> FYI, Allegro.CC just uses
>
>
> int main()
> {
> return 0;
> }
>
>
> as well as for pre-formatted "monospace" text.
>
> Neither of those would pollute a mailing list in plain-text mode
> because t
On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 09:11:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, November 9, 2018 1:27:44 AM MST Kagamin via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> [...]
You used markdown three times in your message.
No, I didn't. I jus
On Friday, November 9, 2018 1:27:44 AM MST Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > Honestly, having markdown in messages being typical would be
> > _really_ annoying for those of us not using the web interface,
> > becaus
On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Honestly, having markdown in messages being typical would be
_really_ annoying for those of us not using the web interface,
because we'd see all of those backticks and the like as
backticks, not as syntax highlighting. It would
On Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:25:45 PM MST Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-
d-learn wrote:
> It's not a forum. It's a newsgroup that happens to have a web interface.
> Newsgroups are text-only. So bbcode is out, html is out, but interpreting
> markdown might be reasonable. But nobody's done that w
On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:03:36 +, Chris Katko wrote:
> Simple curious question.
>
> Why isn't :
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> instead:
>
> import std.io;
IO includes things like memory mapping, sockets, listing files, named
pipes, that sort of thing.
Standard IO includes only reading and writi
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:03:36AM +, Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> Simple curious question.
>
> Why isn't :
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> instead:
>
> import std.io;
The reason is that std.stdio is basically just a nice D wrapper with
syntactic sugar around the C library's std
Simple curious question.
Why isn't :
import std.stdio;
instead:
import std.io;
(Also, while we're at it. Why doesn't this form have code
highlighting? It would much improve readibility. Doesn't that
seem almost essential for a programming forum?)
I mean, I get it. stdio is the c header f
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